THE ‘AUSTRALIAN INTERVIEW TUNE’ IN AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH INTERVIEWS: SOME HRT MYTHS DEBUNKED?
THE ‘AUSTRALIAN INTERVIEW TUNE’ IN AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH INTERVIEWS: SOME HRT MYTHS DEBUNKED?
Author(s): Christoph HaaseSubject(s): Language studies, Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: intonation; high rising tone; HRT events; discourse quotatives; Australian English; conversation; sociolinguistics; psycholinguistics;
Summary/Abstract: The question of the omnipresence of the HRT in Australian English (AusE) is investigated upon a sample of a mixed AusE-AmE (American English) radio interview. The investigation focuses on the distribution of HRT events in the interview by Australian speakers interspersed with the AmE speech of the interviewee. It tries to answer the question whether a non-HRT speaker triggers a reduction of HRT events on the side of the interviewer. The fi ndings will be interpreted for a new positioning of the HRT as a socio-cultural phenomenon (and thus object of inquiry for sociolinguistics) and/or as an affective cognitive phenomenon (and thus object of inquiry for psycholinguistics).
Journal: Discourse and Interaction
- Issue Year: 4/2011
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 5-17
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English